nisquë

noun. incense, *(lit.) sweet smoke

A neologism for “incense” from Helge Fauskanger’s NQNT (NQNT), which seems to be a combination of nis- “sweet” + usquë “✱smoke”. In VQP (VQP), Tamas Ferencz instead coined ᴺQ. ussa based on the early root ᴱ√USU “✱burn” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, but the actual form of this root was likely ✱ᴱ√ƷUÐU (e.g. its Gnomish form was gudh-) rendering ᴺQ. ussa “incense” dubious.

Element in

• ᴺQ. aranisquë “frankincense”

Elements

Word	Gloss
nis-	“*to smell sweetly”
usquë	“dusk, dim light, [ᴹQ.] reek, *smoke; [Q.] dusk, dim light, [ᴹQ.] twilight; [ᴱQ.] fog”

ussa

noun. incense

Derivations

• √USUK “dusk, evening, *reek, smoke; dusk, evening”